DevOps Engineer – 9 Month Contract – Preston/ Remote

About Your Role:

As the DevOps Engineer, your role will include;

• Design and implement GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerised services to AKS.
• Build and maintain Dockerfiles and container image workflows, pushing to internal container registries.
• Define and manage AKS cluster configurations, ensuring secure and scalable workloads.
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for provisioning cloud infrastructure in line with Azure Landing Zone standards.
• Manage secrets, configuration, and access using Azure Key Vault and Azure AD.
• Ensure connectivity between on-prem services and Azure cloud infrastructure using GreenLink and hybrid networking.
• Collaborate with MLOps and Data Engineers to ensure reproducible, reliable, and auditable infrastructure across environments.
• Monitor system health, logging, and metrics using platform observability tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana where applicable).

About You:

As an experienced DevOps Engineer, your skills and experience will include;

• Azure Landing Zone principles, vNet design, RBAC, networking, and hybrid connectivity.
• CI/CD tooling, especially GitLab CI/CD.
• Container orchestration (AKS) and Docker best practices.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep).
• Networking principles, including hub/spoke topology and private endpoints.